Selasa, 17 Januari 2012

Top Interest Rate Headlines 01-17-12: Debt-Limit Debate Returns to Congress

Debt-Limit Debate Returns to Congress
Congress will joust over a symbolic vote on the U.S. debt limit this week while a decision on whether to extend $3 trillion in tax cuts into 2013 probably will wait until after the November election.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-17/debt-limit-debate-to-return-to-congress-while-budget-decisions-will-wait.html

Icap hires Treasury official to regulatory role

By Jeremy Grant - Financial Times
Icap has hired senior UK Treasury civil servant Hannah Gurga to a new European regulatory advisory post at the world’s largest interdealer broker.
http://jlne.ws/AysMTs

MF Global Probe Focuses on Back Office
BY AARON LUCCHETTI, JULIE STEINBERG AND MIKE SPECTOR - WSJ
Investigators on the hunt for an estimated $1.2 billion in customer money missing since MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed are zeroing in on the securities firm's back-office operations in Chicago, people familiar with the situation said.
http://jlne.ws/xf5Hsu

S&P downgrades eurozone bail-out fund
By Joshua Chaffin in Brussels and Quentin Peel in Berlin - Financial Times
Standard & Poor’s on Monday stripped the eurozone’s bail-out fund of its AAA credit rating, potentially constraining its ability to contain the region’s debt crisis and focusing attention on efforts to create a more robust successor.
http://jlne.ws/xTiLAQ

Royal Bank of Scotland sells aviation business
Associated Press via Yahoo! News
Taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland says it will sell off its aircraft leasing division to Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group.
http://jlne.ws/yLo6Xu

Goldman Sachs Said to Offer Bid for New York Fed's AIG Assets
BusinessWeek
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. approached the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with a bid for a block of the mortgage bonds assumed from American International Group Inc., prompting the central bank to weigh an auction of the debt, three people familiar with the matter said.
http://jlne.ws/yJeMDa

Icap hires Treasury official to regulatory role
By Jeremy Grant - Financial Times
Icap has hired senior UK Treasury civil servant Hannah Gurga to a new European regulatory advisory post at the world’s largest interdealer broker.
http://jlne.ws/AysMTs

MF Global Probe Focuses on Back Office
BY AARON LUCCHETTI, JULIE STEINBERG AND MIKE SPECTOR - WSJ
Investigators on the hunt for an estimated $1.2 billion in customer money missing since MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed are zeroing in on the securities firm's back-office operations in Chicago, people familiar with the situation said.
http://jlne.ws/xf5Hsu

S&P downgrades eurozone bail-out fund
By Joshua Chaffin in Brussels and Quentin Peel in Berlin - Financial Times
Standard & Poor’s on Monday stripped the eurozone’s bail-out fund of its AAA credit rating, potentially constraining its ability to contain the region’s debt crisis and focusing attention on efforts to create a more robust successor.
http://jlne.ws/xTiLAQ

Royal Bank of Scotland sells aviation business
Associated Press via Yahoo! News
Taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland says it will sell off its aircraft leasing division to Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group.
http://jlne.ws/yLo6Xu

Goldman Sachs Said to Offer Bid for New York Fed's AIG Assets
BusinessWeek
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. approached the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with a bid for a block of the mortgage bonds assumed from American International Group Inc., prompting the central bank to weigh an auction of the debt, three people familiar with the matter said.
http://jlne.ws/yJeMDa

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